11/02/2010 @ 6:30PM

In Pictures: America's Most Relaxed Cities

America’s Most Relaxed Cities

To pinpoint the least stressed-out cities, we started with the country’s largest 40 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas and measured them on six metrics that are closely correlated with stress or that result from stress: unemployment rates, commute times, average hours spent working, physical health, medical coverage, and rates of regular exercise, using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.